10 Years Ago 1997
In a time of decreasing enrollment at Everett Community College, ethnic diversity in the student body has remained essentially constant and race relations relatively good according to some minority students. The two-year school serves many M-PHS and Marysville Alternative High School students. Out of the 1996 graduating class, 90 from M-PHS and three from MAHS chose EvCC According to Linda Baca, M-PHS is the leading feeder school for the busy campus. In 1996, out of a total enrollment of 7,555, 93 were international students and 59 were African-Americans. Asians had the single largest minority category with 343 students, followed closely by Hispanics with 272. But in a student body consisting of 5,213 Caucasian students, complaints are few and far between. Mike Mayfield, an African-American from Los Angeles, admits there arent too many darker students but he has no problems. Nigel Smith, 19, also African-American and a study buddy of Mayfields, laughs when he hears the racism question. Ive grown up here all my life and Ive been treated fine, he said. Linda Baca, a Hispanic staff member at EvCC, points to the mixed ethnicity of the office staff. How could we have problems with a staff like this?
Gretchen Saldano, 21, Puerto Rican, laughs about the racism question. Other then groups [of students] sticking to themselves, she said, I get more prejudiced from being a Californian than anything. Masi Kato, an international student from Japan, does see some minor racism. I go into the bathrooms and read go home gooks, he said. It kind of bothers me. Kato tries to focus on the positive. There are some [racist] students but not any staff.

25 Years Ago 1982
Although the word levy is not a pleasant one to the Marysville School Board and administration, nevertheless, it is one that is part of the groups vocabulary. Administrators arent sure what the amount will be or the date for citizens to vote on it, but they do know it is needed to see them through the next couple of years. A two-year levy was passed by voters in April 1981, with the largest percentage in the districts history. The $1,281,201 levy was essential to make up for the reduction in school funding by the state. Superintendent Dick Huselton told board members further cuts prompted another levy. The board appointed local citizens Dick Toop and Dennis Krumm to serve as levy co-chairmen. The administration anticipates brining the dollar amount and election date to the board at their Nov. 15 meeting.
In other business, the board heard the poems of elementary and middle school students who were winners in the districts poetry contest. They also recognized the M-PHS boy and girl of the month for September and October. They are Brent Edstrom and Kristin Timm, September, and Rod Reed and Donna Grout, October. Larry Wilson, a teacher at Marysville Middle School, received the Curriculum Quill Award for October for his many contributions to the schools curriculum, especially the In School Supervision program.


50 Years Ago 1957
Four-year-old Deanie Lynn Parker is a very mighty lucky girl, after having a slight run-in with an auto at the corner of Fourth and State streets. Deanie, who lives with her parents, several sisters and brothers, was following behind her mother and the other children as they crossed from the west to the east side of State. Midway across the busy crosswalk, the light turned to green with little Deanie last in a single file line of children. Cars headed northbound apparently didnt see the youngster, and a car struck the child with the right front bumper, throwing the girl to the pavement. Luckily, only slight bruises and scratches were sustained. A bystander who was crossing in another crosswalk saw what was to happen but could do nothing but shout, Whoa! Whoa! to the moving auto. The driver did report hearing the warning but failed to see the small girl in her path.